Haïku Closes a €3 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Its Growth

A Series A round to strengthen Haïku’s position in the legal AI market

Founded in 2023 in Bordeaux under the name Clerk, Haïku develops a SaaS platform designed exclusively for legal professionals. Its solution indexes and leverages all of a firm’s internal documents, then offers users a natural-language interface allowing them to find, synthesize, and reuse the knowledge accumulated in their files.

Two and a half years after its founding, Haïku has thus closed a second funding round of €3 million led by Newfund. The lead ticket comes from Newfund Velocity, the fund’s general-purpose, larger-capacity vehicle, while NAEH Innopy — its regional vehicle dedicated to innovative companies in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and already a Haïku shareholder since its first round — participated again. Naco rounds out this financing by joining the company’s capital for the first time. This transaction brings the total amount raised by the company since its founding to €4.3 million.

More than 2,000 independent lawyers already use the self-service platform, joined by law firms of all sizes and by leading players such as Cornet Vincent Ségurel and Adaltys. Haïku also relies on eight partner bar associations, including Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Seine-Saint-Denis.

This funding will enable Haïku to accelerate its R&D efforts, continue its expansion across Europe, and strengthen its teams, with around fifteen new hires planned for 2026. For Jules Touzet, founder and CEO of Haïku, this milestone is part of a deep transformation of the legal market, in which models based on data retention are giving way to a new generation of AI tools serving legal professionals.

Altaïr Avocats, legal counsel to Haïku

Pierre Gramage and his team advised Haïku on all legal aspects of the transaction, from structuring through to completion.

This transaction illustrates the firm’s ability to work with innovative technology companies on their fundraising operations, and to support executives and investors in growth projects with significant strategic stakes.

« Accompagner Haïku dans cette nouvelle levée de fonds est particulièrement stimulant : cette opération illustre la vitalité de l’écosystème bordelais et la capacité de ses entrepreneurs à porter des solutions d’intelligence artificielle au service des professions juridiques. Nous sommes fiers d’avoir guidé l’équipe de Jules Touzet à chaque étape de cette opération structurante pour l’avenir de la société. » – Pierre Gramage, Partner

His team consisted of:

Private Equity: Pierre Gramage, partner, Jeanne Mucchielli, Counsel and Hugo Henry, associate